Amy Mek
American activist and social media influencer
Amy Mekelburg (born 1972 or 1973), known online as Amy Mek, is an American anti-Muslim activist and social media influencer. Mekelburg founded the RAIR Foundation, a right-wing platform centered on topics such as immigration, Islam, left-wing politics, and globalism. Her full identity was not known until she was exposed, by some accounts doxxed, by HuffPost journalist Luke O'Brien in 2018, at a time when she had amassed over 200,000 followers.
Background
Mekelburg is Jewish. She grew up in East Brunswick, New Jersey and attended the University of Rhode Island, graduating in 1996 with a degree in communication studies. By 2003 she lived in Manhattan's Upper East Side with her husband. With her husband, she founded a non-profit organization dedicated to overturning the conviction of Paul Cortez, a friend, for second-degree murder, believing him to have been wrongfully convicted. In 2016, she moved to be closer to Cortez, while she presented herself as a psychotherapist in the prison system.
Anti-Muslim activism
She began her Twitter account in 2013, and had gained 200,000 followers by 2018, with endorsements from figures such as Donald Trump and Michael Flynn. Amy Mek was speculated in 2017 by San Francisco Examiner columnist Maureen Erwin and NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian of being a bot account, although she had been interviewed in a New York Times article about women who supported Donald Trump in 2016.
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